Tag: spirituality
member name: Carl Halling
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August 03, 2007 09:35 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Genesis of a Gentleman", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, is an account conceived as accurately as possible of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in . . .
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January 06, 2007 11:53 AM EST --
1. Prelude
The following piece has been adapted from a page of diary notes or unfinished and unsent letter dating from pretty well exactly twenty years ago, which is to say Christmastime 1986, and composed . . .
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January 06, 2007 12:13 PM EST --
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December 28, 2006 05:36 PM EST --
The following piece began its life as, and consists in its present form as amalgam of, two almost identical unfinished and somewhat jejune pieces of poetry composed possibly around 1980, and while I have . . .
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August 12, 2007 03:13 PM EDT --
Introduction
The following short story, the last in a series of pieces based on my sixties boyhood in west London, is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled . . .
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November 14, 2007 10:07 AM EST --
Introduction
“A Final Distant Clarion Cry” consists of diverse unrelated writings which I painstakingly knitted together to make a suitably grand finale to my as yet untitled experiment . . .
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August 24, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
Introduction
"The Twilight of an Actor" existed initially as nothing more than "Such a Short Space of Time", published at the Blogster.com website on the 19th of February 2006. However, . . .
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March 12, 2009 09:07 AM EDT --
Sad Loves of a Seafaring Man
In late summer 1973 the minesweeper HMS Thames set out for Bordeaux in Gironde in the south west of France. It was my first voyage as an Ordinary Deckhand with the RNR . . .
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March 13, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Those Landmark Years
For two years I'd slavishly followed those artists who'd either predated Modernism or been part of its banquet years and beyond but in '76 a new decade, that of Brando, . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:11 PM EST --
By any standards, Pangbourne College was a deeply Christian school, with regular Divinity classes, daily prayers, and compulsory chapel on Sunday morning. Moreover while at college I was baptised and confirmed . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:33 AM EST --
77 was a darker year than its immediate predecessors as I see it, it having been marked by the ascendancy of Punk, a musical and cultural movement which perhaps somewhat hampered Rock's uneven progress . . .
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December 11, 2006 07:35 PM EST --
Introduction
The following story is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled four and a half pages of a school style notebook in what is likely to have been the . . .
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August 27, 2007 06:47 AM EDT --
Introduction
"Shreds of Nothingness" centres on my brief stay at Homerton, a teaching training college contained within the University of Cambridge, with its campus at Hills Road just outside . . .
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January 21, 2008 04:47 AM EST --
Introduction
An early draft of "The Sweetness of Wrens" was published as "A Dandy in the Land of Blue Denim 2" at Blogster.com on the 21st of April 2006, since which time it's . . .
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March 10, 2008 04:06 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Gone the Way of Cain" consists of pieces from formerly published writings:
"First Night of the Dream" and "The End of the Century Young" were taken from . . .
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March 11, 2009 08:29 AM EDT --
Birth of a Rock'n'Roll Child
I was born Friday 7 October 1955 at the tail end of West London's Goldhawk Road and my first home was in Bulmer Place near Notting Hill Gate.
My brother was . . .
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